Because when you educate a girl you educate a family, reduce over-population, reduce disease, reduce pollution and environmental impact, reduce terrorism and a whole host of other world problems.
One could think of many reasons for considering a human base on Mars - such as over-population on Earth - but Darlene Lim is mainly motivated by the thrill of exploration.
In fact, over 13% of the over-50 population surveyed had some symptoms of an eating disorder.
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Thanks to a combination of in-migration and people not leaving when they retire, the population of over-65s in the district has increased from 14, 500 to 19, 600 since 2001.
This trend supports a projected rise in values-based investing, and since the Muslim population is expected to grow at twice the rate of the non-Muslim population over the next two decades, we can assume that growth of Islamic finance will continue.
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The results are visible in increasing levels of public dissatisfaction in Britain with waiting lists in the health service, congested roads and trains, over-crowded classrooms and an under-educated population.
Although over three-fifths of the world's population live in Asia, they only account for just over one-fifth of global private consumption, much less than America's 30% share.
Asked if climate change had been over-emphasised in comparison with population growth, Mr Fox agreed.
When Social Security was implemented in 1935, the over-65 portion of the population was a lot smaller then than it is now.
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Estimates taken in 2000 had over-estimated Scotland's population by about 50, 000 or 1% and this could have been down to the difficult task of measuring migration of people.
Today, in Haiti, there are new procedures in place to prepare for a catastrophe, to issue warnings to the population - over the radio - and to carry out their evacuation.
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It's not just that there a lot more homes now--housing stock has actually been growing much faster than the population over the past couple of decades--but on top of the trend to fewer people per home, the average home's square footage has ballooned by 30%.
Crossbencher Lord Adebowale said young adults were "significantly over-represented" in the prison population, with "very high" reoffending rates following often short periods in custody.
Tourism is creating other problems for the local environment, too, including increased population density, over-dependence on wood as a fuel and construction source and the overgrazing and cutting of mountain slopes to feed livestock.
Population increase, over-consumption and galloping urbanisation have multiple consequences, including the increasing rarity of certain species of plants and animals, pollution, the over exploitation of land and the sea, as well as the spread of invasive alien species.
Similarly, UNESCO noted that the net enrolment ratio (NER) in pre-primary education in 2005 for children aged 3 to 5 years was 46 per cent which suggest that well over half the pre-school aged population has no access to ECE.
But Mr Ionescu said the Romanian state had no strategy of integrating the Roma, which officially numbered 535, 000 - about 2.5% of the population - but was thought to total over a million.
Since 1997, inactivity has stuck at just over a fifth of the working-age population.
Greg Ward, of the council's economic development unit, thinks investors had been put off by the city's high employment rate, which stood at just over 80% of the working-age population in 2008.
And the people of Carlisle, ranked one of the worst places in the country for broadband speed, rack up fewer than 2, 000 pirated downloads per month - despite a population of over 70, 000.
But human factors have also played their part, with over-grazing, over-farming, misuse of irrigation and the unsustainable demands of a growing population all contributing to environmental degradation.
Russia will have 76% more centa-millionaires over the period, with India and China more than doubling their uber-rich population by 114% and 106% respectively, according to The Wealth Report.
According to estimates, by 2030, nearly 20% of the U.S. population will be over 60 years-old.
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This is troubling news for America, where the over-65 share of the voting-age population will rise from 17% now to 26% in 2030.
"Sao Paulo is an international airport but it has only two terminals but has a population of over 20 million people - it's ridiculously badly served, " says HSBC bank chief economist for Latin America, Andre Loes.
It would mean by 2050, Britain would have a population of nearly 72.4 million - overtaking Germany, whose population is projected to fall sharply over the period, as Europe's largest country.
While the United States widely celebrates Christmas, China is largely non-religious, with over 60% of the population considering themselves agnostic or atheist.
Overall, the illiteracy rate in the young and middle-aged population group has fallen from over 80 per cent down to about 5 per cent.
Conservationists say that high levels of exploitation, loss of habitat and habitat degradation has led to the species experiencing a "significant population reduction" over the past 20-30 years.
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In a separate meeting with Ms Bokova and Mr Brown, Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao highlighted that a majority of Timor-Leste's population of just over one million were youth.
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